Last weekend, Simferopol residents celebrated City Day. True, they began to celebrate in advance – from Friday. We opened the city board of honor and an exhibition of flowers, held an event for children, as well as the Simferopol Championship for cycling. Let’s just say that it was warming up the townspeople before the main events.
On June 1, the leadership of the autonomy represented by the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of the ARC Vladimir Konstantinov and the head of the Crimean government Anatoly Mogilev, as well as the mayor of Viktor Ageev in a solemn setting, opened a new square – the square of the republic. For the uninitiated, we explain. Autonomous Republic of Crimea is the only autonomous education in unitary Ukraine. Crimeans celebrate the Day of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the Constitution Day of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, but there was still no certain symbolic place for these celebrations. But now there is. In the square, a fountain was installed in the form of a “floating” globe and the contour of the Crimean Peninsula, on which the inscriptions “prosperity in unity” and “Crimea – Pearl of Ukraine” flaunt.
The fate of the place chosen for the square is interesting. In 1866, the editor-publisher of the newspaper Crimean Bulletin at his own expense rebuilt a building here for a printing house and lithography. In 1910, the building was placed in the Empire cinema, renamed in 1929 to the “Flight”, then to the “Culti-film”, and even later-in the “Jungshchm-MOM”. There was a time when a Jewish club acted in this building. After the Great Patriotic War, the Astoria Hotel, the restaurant and a photosalon of the same name, earned here. Later, the building was located in the Crimean fishing department, the Children’s World store and the Mill Department of the People’s Commissariat of Education. Since the beginning of the 1990s, the building has planned to be completely repaired. But the idea could not be realized and the once chic structure turned into ruins. Only one facade wall was more or less preserved, which, let’s say, did not decorate the face of the city. And since the owner of the building did not take any measures to reconstruct the facility, the District Administrative Court of the ARC by its decision terminated ownership of the building.
Further – the work of technology. The deputies of the Crimean parliament allocated funds for the dismantling of the wall, and the Simferopols during the survey spoke for placing a square here. And here is the result, as they say, on the face or in the very center of the Crimean capital.
Of course, the city authorities did not forget about entertainment. There were costume processions, and game programs for children, and theatrical performance “Ancient Capital”. Even Crimean Tatar National Festival “Sabantui” celebrated. But in the evening before the Simferopols performed … “Plazma” and DR. Alban.
